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Earning a driver's license is a modern-day right of passage for American teens - and for their fretful parents. But even though it marks teenagers' first major step toward independence, researchers say parents can still wield a lot of influence on how safely - or hazardously - that transition unfolds...
...latest year for which the government has statistics on teen driving, adolescent deaths made up 12% of all deaths from car accidents, and 400,000 teens required treatment in an emergency department due to a motor-vehicle crash. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...Morton died after receiving GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix, one of two vaccines designed to protect women from the human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection linked to most cervical cancers. (American women receive Gardasil, an HPV vaccine manufactured by Merck.) Introduced last year, Cervarix is expected to cut deaths from cervical cancer in Britain by about 75% - or 650 deaths a year. So far, the vaccine has been given to 1.4 million women in Britain, and Morton's death is the first to be possibly linked to the shot. But there have also been less serious side effects in recipients. Britain...
Giving up on a dream is never an easy thing to do. Just ask Andrew Berry ’09, Harvard’s three-time All-Ivy cornerback and 2008 preseason All-American...
Like Berry, James Williams also dreams of playing professional football. Harvard’s star left tackle is also an All-American and All-Ivy standout whom his coach recently called the Crimson’s best lineman since NFL Pro-Bowler Matt Birk...